Load balancing IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)

Updated on November 7, 2025
Published on March 7, 2023

Benefits of load balancing IBM WAS

Load balancing IBM WebSphere Application Server offers the following benefits:

  • Increase developer productivity with open standards and broad programming models, including lightweight options for web deployments.
  • Deploy and manage applications and services without the constraint of time, location or device type.
  • Includes the Liberty profile, a dynamic web application server profile.
  • Enhance security and control using integrated management and administrative tools.

About IBM WebSphere Application Server

IBM® WebSphere® Application Server offers options for a faster, more flexible Java application server runtime environment. It offers enhanced reliability and resiliency for building and running applications, including cloud and mobile. It supports environments from a single server and midsize configurations to large deployments requiring web tier clustering over multiple application server instances.

You can select the profile of WebSphere Application Server that best meets your operational and business needs. You are fully entitled to use the Full Profile and Liberty Profile in development and production with this edition.

Why Loadbalancer.org for WAS?

Loadbalancer’s intuitive Enterprise Application Delivery Controller (ADC) is designed to save time and money with a clever, not complex, WebUI. 

Easily configure, deploy, manage, and maintain our Enterprise load balancer, reducing complexity and the risk of human error. For a difference you can see in just minutes.

And with WAF and GSLB included straight out-of-the-box, there’s no hidden costs, so the prices you see on our website are fully transparent.

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